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When this was over, one Trypho, who was the king's barber, took the
opportunity, and came and told the king, that Tero would often have persuaded
him, when he trimmed him with a razor, to cut his throat, for that by this
means he should be among the chief of Alexander's friends, and receive
great rewards from him. When he had said this, the king gave order that
Tero, and his son, and the barber should be tortured, which was done accordingly;
but while Tero bore up himself, his son seeing his father already in a
sad case, and had no hope of deliverance, and perceiving what would be
the consequence of his terrible sufferings, said, that if the king would
free him and his father from these torments for what he should say, he
would tell the truth. And when the king had given his word to do so, he
said that there was an agreement made, that Tero should lay violent hands
on the king, because it was easy for him to come when he was alone; and
that if, when he had done the thing, he should suffer death for it, as
was not unlikely, it would be an act of generosity done in favor of Alexander.
This was what Tero's son said, and thereby freed his father from the distress
he was in; but uncertain it is whether he had been thus forced to speak
what was true, or whether it were a contrivance of his, in order to procure
his own and his father's deliverance from their miseries.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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